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He was known to Swedish authorities as a possible terrorist, and had jihadi propaganda on his Facebook page. Bystrom would not confirm or deny media reports that police had found a bag containing explosives in the truck. He said the suspect was not on any current list of people being monitored. Sweden's Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven, has called a day of national mourning on Monday, and Theresa May has called to express Britain's condolences.

An Australian Super Rugby team will be axed next year after SANZAAR announced a revamped 15-team competition. The restructuring comes after widespread criticism of the first season of the 18-team format, which was introduced in 2016 after Argentina's Jaguares and the Sunwolves of Japan joined the competition and the Port Elizabeth-based Kings returned.

The explosion occurred as Coptic Christians were celebrating Palm Sunday, one of the holiest days in the Christian calendar, marking the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. In December previous year, 25 people were killed in a bomb explosion at the Coptic cathedral in Cairo during a church service. A militant group called Liwa al-Thawra claimed responsibility for an April 1 bomb attack targeting a police training center in Tanta, which wounded 16 people.

A bag of explosives was found in the truck, according to the Swedish broadcaster SVT . Following the attack, the local police arrested a 39-year-old Uzbek national living in Sweden, who had reportedly posted propaganda related to Daesh terrorist group on his Facebook page.

Bringing back bombs - likely to Osan Air Base, less than 50 miles south of the capital of Seoul - would mark the first overseas nuclear deployment since the end of the Cold War, an unquestionably provocative move. Tokyo imposed a set of unilateral sanctions on North Korea in response to its missile tests in 2006, which have since been extended several times.

In a statement to the Associated Press, Hydara poured scorn on her husband's act of terror and requested privacy for her family, especially the children, at this hard time. Speakers said it was time for all communities and religions to "come together and show solidarity" and to "not let the terrorists win". The inquest into the death of Masood will open and adjourn at the same Coroner's Court on Thursday, March 30, at 1pm.

Japan, together with the US and South Korea, tightened sanctions in December 2016, following North Korea's nuclear and missile tests. The statement said that North Korea, which regards Syria as an ally, was not surprised that this USA military attack was a "warning to us" and that it was another example that "we have to defend ourselves against imperialist aggressions".

On Saturday, Trump tweeted , "It was a great honor to have President Xi Jinping and Madame Peng Liyuan of China as our guests in the United States". It also said China opposes the use of chemical weapons. - Vowed cooperation to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear program; recognized North Korea's nuclear program has reached a critical stage.

The United States blasted a Syrian air base with a barrage of cruise missiles in fiery retaliation for this week's gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians. "The United States will no longer wait for Assad to use chemical weapons without any consequences", Ms Haley said. The decision undercut another campaign promise for Trump: his pledge to try to warm relations with Moscow.

The users of these Twitter accounts are using the social media site to voice their growing dissent with government leaders and policies, reports Reuters . The Department of Justice declined to comment . Esha Bhandari, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing the Twitter user, said the government's request was highly unusual.

Apart from this, an agreement was also signed regarding cooperation on nuclear power plant projects in Bangladesh. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as has become standard practice with him, found the occasion to bring in Pakistan for adverse comment albeit obliquely.

The comments come as the two leaders wrapped up a Florida summit, and signal a U-turn from his anti-China rhetoric on the campaign trail a year ago. Xi is therefore expected to come under pressure from Trump to take a tougher stance with its neighbour, with the United States president potentially calling for China to step up targeted sanctions on North Korea.

Modi also noted that India has added an additional 60 Mw of power to the 600 Mw already flowing to Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Prime Minister arrived here on Friday on a four-day visit to India. On her part, Sheikh Hasina appreciated Modi "for his dynamism and innovative ideas that are not only taking India forward but adding value to our our bilateral relationship".

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu also said safe zones in Syria were "now more important than ever". The village is in the northern province of Raqqa where US -backed Syrian fighters have been on the offensive against IS under the cover of USA -led coalition airstrikes.

Sen. Claire McCaskillClaire McCaskillKey Dem McCaskill to oppose Gorsuch, back filibuster The Hill's 12:30 Report Conservative group targets red-state Dems ahead of Supreme Court vote MORE (D-Mo.) on Friday said she will vote to support a filibuster of President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

That could potentially change calculations from Beijing to Moscow to Pyongyang. His back corner position serves as a neat representation of his demotion from the National Security Council, ordered by President Trump this week. The line enabled the U.S. to warn the Kremlin of impending air strikes on Thursday and was also used in February to stop a Russian strike on United States jets it had mistaken for Isis forces in a region of northern Syria.

The missile, apparently a new medium-range type, was launched from North Korea's eastern coastal city of Sinpo, South Hamgyong Province, toward the northeast around 6:42 a.m. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for recognising the Syrian struggle to "meet such challenges as sinister actions of the world's terrorists" and Syria was encouraged "to successfully weather the crisis without fail".

The attackers were disguised in police uniforms and used a police vehicle to enter the city, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, Police Colonel Khalid Mahmoud told Reuters. The hardline group seized Mosul, Iraq's second city, almost three years ago, declaring from one of its oldest and most iconic mosques the establishment of a "caliphate" that also spans parts of Syria.

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF ), a Kurdish-Arab alliance, has been working for months to encircle Raqa. SDF spokesperson Talal Silo said its fighters had seized "60 to 70 percent" of the airport but were still engaged in clashes with the militants inside the air base and on its outskirts.

Democrats from three very red states - Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Joe Donnelly of IN, and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota - also voted for Gorsuch . Trump himself predicted to reporters aboard Air Force One Thursday that "there could be as many as four" Supreme Court vacancies for him to fill during his administration.

The 28-year-old has had some big moments in golf, winning prestigious tournaments like the 2012 Wells Fargo Championship and The Players Championship and Deutsche Bank Championship in 2015. Garcia, 37, played a bogey-free back nine featuring two birdies to card a 70 while world number eight Fowler, like the Spaniard bidding for his first major title, signed for a 71.

Two military sources told NBC News that Air Force leadership doesn't necessarily support putting nuclear weapons in South Korea. The move comes at a time of increased tensions as North Korea presses ahead with nuclear and missile programs, which have badly rattled the United States and its allies Japan and South Korea.

Anders Thornberg, head of the Swedish Security Service, said security services were working with other nations' security agencies to investigate the attack, but declined to elaborate. Police did not respond to the reports. Police said he matched an image released after the incident, but did not release more details about the suspect.

Xi also spoke in vague, but generally positive terms at the presidents' joint press event. "I believe that with the passage of time we will make efforts to bear our great historical responsibility for promoting the development of Sino-US relations, to create prosperity for both countries and their people and to uphold global peace and stability", he said .

A Harris Interactive poll published Thursday showed centrist Emmanuel Macron holding onto a narrow first round lead over far-right leader Marine Le Pen, with the two frontrunners on 25 and 24 percent respectively. Conservative candidate Francois Fillon slumped from being front-runner to trailing in third place, according to opinion polls, after the Canard Enchaine reported in January that he paid his wife and two children hundreds of thousands of euros in tax-payers' money for work they did ...

While Trump would not say what he wants China to do specifically, he said he thinks China will "want to be stepping up" in trying to deter North Korea's nuclear ambitions. Teng Luo, 29, of West Palm Beach said his group also waved their flags in West Palm Beach on Thursday, when Xi arrived. -China dialogue by putting the two presidents at the head of the forum.

To defend Mr. Assad seems morally outrageous, but calls for his removal risk sounding like a death-knell for fellow Christians. Today, Nikki Haley, the USA ambassador to the United Nations , stated that America is "prepared to do more ".

May was expected to explore ways of boosting trade ties with the kingdom during her two-day visit, her second to a Gulf Arab state since Britain made a decision to leave the EU. "It is in our British national interest to have good relations around the world so we can trade around the world. And, yes it is in our national interest to ensure that the values that underpin us as Britons are values that we promote around the world and that's what we do".

Washington justified the attack by saying it was a "proportional response" to the chemical attack on civilians in Idlib Province, which allegedly was carried out by Assad's forces. "We'll see if this is a Machiavellian stroke of genius by Trump for the good, or whether he's been manipulated by the neo-cons toward a wider war", he said.

His Celtics did exactly that. "Really, the story of our season has been we haven't been able to defend in the fourth quarter", Clifford said. Tonight, we needed to win this game. After the offense went missing for most of the second half. "And we made a couple of plays on both sides of the floor, and we got a win". "The first thing I had to do was apologize to the team for doing that", Clifford said.

Mantashe said the ANC had accepted the "irretrievable breakdown of the relationship" between Zuma and Gordhan as the reason the finance minister was sacked. South Africa's largest trade union has joined calls for President Jacob Zuma to step down. He told South Africans to "connect the dots" and "organise".

The Supreme Court has been operating with only 8 justices since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016, but Gorsuch's confirmation creates a conservative majority within the Court. The U.S. Senate voted 54-45 Friday to confirm President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, in a vote decided largely along party lines.

The mother and baby are reportedly in good health. The airline said that on arrival in the Burkina Faso capital the pair were taken to hospital. A Turkish Airlines cabin crew has welcomed one more passenger on board after helping to deliver a baby girl during a flight.

Garcia's 20 years of major frustration include four runner-up efforts, the first of them to Tiger Woods as a teen in the 1999 PGA Championship. Rose was an afterthought, five shots behind, when his tee shot to a left pin on the par-3 12th dropped in 5 feet from the hole for the first of five birdies on the back nine.

The explosives, in the form of a homemade bomb, did not properly detonate, SVT reported, citing multiple police sources. The suspect in a truck-ramming attack in Stockholm , Sweden on Saturday, had reportedly hijacked a beer truck several blocks earlier .

Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged restraint as Russian Federation accused the United States of encouraging "terrorists" in the region with its unilateral actions. This also comes after Washington recently indicated that it wasn't focussed on Assad's ouster any more. When asked whether the United States should send ground troops to Syria, McCain said Assad "will not be overthrown by American troops".

More than 60 companies have pulled out from the show since Saturday, and the Washington Post reports that some of the companies still advertising on the show are only doing so because they are locked into previously agreed upon ad-buys.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was still planning a visit to Russian next week after meeting with G-7 foreign ministers in Europe. The appearances come several days after Trump ordered the US military to launch airstrikes on the Syrian airbase believed to be the launching point of Tuesday's chemical weapons attack that killed at least 70 civilians.

The president ordered the retaliatory strike just two days after a suspected chemical weapons attack killed at least 86 people, including women and children, in Syria's Idlib Province. created to avoid collisions between their air forces over the country. "Mindful of the risk of escalation, I appeal for restraint to avoid any acts that could deepen the suffering of the Syrian people", he said in a statement .

Swedish police said the man arrested for driving a truck into a crowd of people had been investigated previously for extremist ideology but was not charged. "We want - and I am convinced the Swedish people also want - to live a normal life". "We're also determined to continue to be an open society; a democratic society".

The White House put out statements blaming former President Barack Obama for allowing the situation in Syria to escalate without intervening - although Mr Trump previously urged his predecessor to stay out of the conflict. Syrian allies Russian Federation and Iran have both condemned the U.S. airstrikes . Protesters gather in NY for a rally against the USA missile strikes in Syria.

President Donald Trump has accepted the invitation from Chinese President Xi Jinping to pay a state visit to China this year. After arriving in Seoul on Monday, the Chinese envoy in charge of the North Korean issue will talk with South Korea's representative Kim Hong-kyun, according to the ministry.

But others cautioned that the knife cuts both ways and that should Democrats become the majority in the Senate again, Republicans will regret their decision to go "nuclear". McConnell refused to hold hearings for President Barack Obama's nominee. But they accomplished that last thing only after blowing up a centuries-old rule that allows (but not requires) senators to demand a Supreme Court nominee get 60 votes (instead of a majority 51) to get confirmed.

They are involved in talks outside of Syria, and are still working with US officials. Putin's initial reaction to the USA airstrikes was mild. Russia, which has military forces in Syria aiding Assad's government, says the deaths were caused by a gas leak from a depot where rebel groups stored chemical weapons, a charge the rebels deny and USA intelligence officials say is false.

The US took part in a massive joint naval exercise with Japan and South Korea this week aimed at reducing the threat from North Korean submarines. In Tokyo, Abe said Trump reaffirmed that he is prepared to consider all possibilities in dealing with North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes.

South Africa's democratically elected government "is entrusted with the task of governance", and decisions made by those not elected to public office pose a "threat to the democratic process", the statement said. "We thus remain firm in our call that the economy needs to include the black majority in the ownership and control", he said. Later, in a speech at the weekend, which has been interpreted as a public broadside against Mr Zuma, he called for a renewal of the country and criticised ...

Interestingly, the upgraded version of Pukguksong-1, which was sacked last August by North Korea via a submarine, employs pre-loaded solid fuel. The US removed its nukes from South Korea 25 years ago; putting them back would be the first time US nuclear weapons were located overseas since the Cold War.

The prestigious handicap steeplechase has had its fair share of fairytales over the years since its first running in 1839 and this year's renewal proved no exception. It's tricky to win a National from far back, but he jumped so well. The Brook has named right after in the very first race Captain Becher's Brook fell in this manner and took refuge under a small brook all the while horses rained mud and dust on him, he later was heard to say "Water takes horribly without whisky".

When the last gas attack in Damascus took place, the United Nations, in a brief paragraph in the middle of their subsequent report, said that the chemical shells had been "compromised" by being moved between different locations. Syria's deputy ambassador to the UN, Mounzer Mounzer, called the missile attack "a barbaric, flagrant act of aggression" and accused the U.S. of harming counter-terrorism efforts.

They said a drone belonging either to Russian Federation or Syria was seen hovering over the site of the chemical weapons attack Tuesday after it happened. He called the U.S. strike a "proportionate response to unspeakable acts". The hospital was bombed shortly afterward, officials said, possibly in an effort to cover up evidence of chemical weapons usage.